Tankette Ltd.

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Ronald Twist & Company Ltd.
Tankette Ltd.
legal form Limited
founding 1919
resolution 1920
Seat London
Branch Automobile manufacturer

Tankette Ltd. , previously Ronald Twist & Company Ltd. , was a British manufacturer of automobiles .

Company history

The company Ronald Twist & Company Ltd. from Watford began producing automobiles in 1919. The brand name was Tankette . The name was later changed to Tankette Ltd. and moving to London . Production ended in 1920.

vehicles

The only model was a cycle car . A single - cylinder two-stroke engine from Union with 2.75 hp power drove the narrow-gauge rear axle via a chain. The two-speed transmission came from Burman. The open body offered space for two people. A special feature was that after the front axle tubes were pushed together to park the vehicle, the total width was only 90 cm.

literature

  • Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  • George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 3: P – Z. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 . (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 .
  2. ^ A b Georgano: The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile.